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Reforms, growth and persistence of gender gap: Recent evidence from private school enrolment in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha; Sharma, Anurag - 2011
This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282389
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Women Legislators and Economic Performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873600
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Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha; Sharma, Anurag - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371892
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Push or pull? Drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012
In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282183
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Regionalism in West Africa : Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? : A Role for Migration
Konseiga, Adama - 2005
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262227
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267663
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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268236
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Life satisfaction in urban China: components and determinants
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - 2008
Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268643
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2008
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268707
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Growing out of poverty: trends and patterns of urban poverty in China 1988 - 2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268820